autocephaly

English

Etymology

From autocephalous +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɔːtəˈsɛfəli/

Noun

autocephaly (countable and uncountable, plural autocephalies)

1. (Christianity) The condition where a church's leaders have severed ties to a larger body and thus no longer report to a higher authority.

Derived terms

• autocephalous

Translations

the organisational independence of a church

Afrikaans: outokefalie (af) Armenian: ինքնագլխություն (hy) (inkʻnaglxutʻyun), ավտոկեֆալություն (avtokefalutʻyun) Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 自主教會 / 自主教会 (zìzhǔ jiàohuì) Finnish: autokefalia (fi) French: autocéphalie Georgian: ავტოკეფალია (avṭoḳepalia) German: Autokephalie (de) f Greek: αυτοκεφαλία (el) f (aftokefalía) Hungarian: autokefália Italian: autocefalia f Japanese: 独立正教会 (どくりつせいきょうかい, dokuritsuseikyōkai) Latin: autocephalia f Polish: autokefalia (pl) f Romanian: autocefalie (ro) f Russian: автокефа́лия (ru) f (avtokefálija) Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: autocefalia f Ukrainian: автокефалія f (avtokefalija)